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Ask Jeeves Bought for $2 billion
RMX writes "CNet's reporting that
Ask Jeeves
is being bought by InterActive Corp
for $2 billion.
Ask Jeeves (ask.com,
excite.com,
iwon.com)
and InterActive Corp (expedia, ticketmaster, match.com, citysearch).
This marks a nice comeback for Ask Jeeves, whose stock was quite a roller coaster ride during the 2000-2003 .com crash. Are the good times back?"
Do you think the creators of www.iwon.com had any idea they'd be in store for a $2,000,000,000 windfall?
I'm a big tall mofo.
Wider distribution for the nightmarish mix of malware provided through AskJeeves!
Bring on the good times. I'm going to start a search engine called askstrongbad.com and it's gonna make billions and be the best thing out there since that techno song I heard one time!
did anyone care to ask Jeeves what he thinks of this?
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
I don't know. Did they?
With $2 billion in his pocket, maybe he can afford now to pay his OWN butler.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Does anyone really ever use ask jeeves?
I asked Jeeves, and I got this:
Many people use Ask Jeeves because it has a picture of a butler
Could be that everyone is consolidating so it will be easier for MS to just buy everything at one sale.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Yeah, it's "whose". 1) "Whose" -> "of someone" 2) "Who's" -> short for "who is" 3) "Who'se" -> ??? PROFIT!!
-- Let's go Viridian.
1. In soviet Russia, Jeeves asks YOU!
2. In Korea, only old people ask Jeeves.
3. I, for one, welcome our new butler overlords.
and finally...
4. I AM a butler, you insensitive clod!
Did you read the fine print? The 2 billion dollars was paid in Flooz and online petfood sales company stock options.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Actually they did:
s in terview.shtml
http://www.satirewire.com/features/satire-jeeve
Are the good times back?
Let's ask jeeves!
I think they should be fairly concerned that the first hit is the Darwin Awards.
That seems similar to Slashdot. I asked it, and I got a picture of a butt. (insert tinyurl Goatse link here).
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Somebody had $2BN burning a hole in their pocket eh?
Looks like somebody got ripped off too.
Religion is for people afraid of going to hell.
Maybe time to immigrate? Both China and India have big borders and coastlines, so it shouldn't be too hard to sneak in. Fitting in might be a little harder. What's hindi for wetback? (for those who choose to swim ashore).
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
What's the best search engine?
why does Ask Jeeves suck so hard?
Do you like goatse?
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
Religion is for people afraid of going to hell.
"hoo-(gutteral stop)-SAY"
It's Klingon for "the editors here can't spell."
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Really ever use ask jeeves? I mean, I used it once or twice several years ago, but is it really that popular to be bought for 2 billion?
Good question. So I asked Jeeves the question, and didn't get much of an answer either -- What is the value of the ask jeeves website?
Interesting enough, google had better results on the question than Jeeves did.
. . . get the answer here.